cryptsleeper | 20s AU Post

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Current Carmilla plot outline
--Post-fire, Carmilla and Mr. Peanut team up mostly to use each other. Carmilla's spent the past several months (since November, it is now February 1925) networking, and it's clear to her that Alucard's not suited for the position and that the other two are the obvious weakness. Mr Peanut needs something back, so this is perfect on her end. Mr Peanut can only imagine the joys of vampire blood in his work, and he'd like an army of vampires for his own ends.
--Shit stirring from Mr Peanut (all of March?)
--Mr Peanut also begins to sell mis Miracle Serum, which has vampire blood in it.
--Gang is very much trying to murder Mr Peanut during this.
--Start of April, vampire gets a call from one of the blood bank contacts that 3 patients have come in and are displaying some bizarre signs. Investigation yields the fact that they're in process of turning, and they've all taken the same serum.
--Additional investigation reveals O FUCK IT MR PEANUT
--Meanwhile Carmilla's been made aware of a familiar she didn't sire, so she knows something's up. Big fight with Mr. Peanut and thus Mr. Peanut is left depowered
--Gang commits a murder
--Carmilla's well sured up on her contacts now, and it's time for open rebellion (mid-April)
--In a more subtle attempt to let Alucard just step aside, she cuts the breaks on demon car and shows up to gloat/suggest he not pull a dad and go to deal with his grief quietly while she runs the city. The how he wants to do it is up to him (black widow joke goes here.) Treffy and Sypha walk in.
--1 week of straight up rebellion; feedings, no help from allies, need to do damage control instead of fight carmilla, every dracula rule is
--MEANWHILE IN GRAVITY FALLS, triangle shows Vlad what's up to try and psyche him out, somehow this finalyl snaps Vlad out of his depression and he heads home
--Just in time for Alucard and Carmilla to be tearing each other to bits in one of the bayous, it's not going well
--Vlad coming in means the king of vampires is accosted by a belmont with a pair of blessed knitting needles and a speaker with a fucking gun and he's just like what the shit happened to the world while i was gone
--Wards around the fight means that only demon car can break the wards, everyone has to pile in.
--Carmilla gets her ass kicked AND SENT TO THE JUSTICE DIMENSION

THEN THERE WERE FAERIES.
--Prior to all of this the vampire and Sypha have done a shit ton of research on how to get their Belmont back
--Sypha has also been practicing debating with dad, which leaves everyone Very Tired.
--When Trevor is actually snatched up (1 year after marriage, it takes fae effort. Taking Arn's shape fails, so it's a lot more kidnapping by force), Sypha and Alucard go into Faerie
--But they're playing this as politics, not as heroes rescuing their damsel, so that means the faeries are just "wait what now excuse u?"
--There are 3 gates and 3 trials (the particulars we're still bullshitting.) Each is asked to sacrifice 3 things. (Alucard: voice, his titles as bestowed upon by his father and his people, i forget the third; Sypha: her human form (she's a birb), fuck what were the other two)
--They enter the court at the end of the third trial. After LITERALLY ALL THE TITLES Sypha declares she Speaks for Trevor Belmont
--Claim debate over Trevor, turns out that the rules are in Sypha's favor.
--But that means debating to leave Fae without giving up what they've chosen.
--Sypha lawyers it all out, Alucard is a safety deposit and hangs out with Fae!Trevor
--In the end, safe passage out of Faerie consists of Sypha giving up her memory of the necromancer (billed as a great mage she studied under), the vampire gives up his immortality, and Trevor is replaced with Carmilla (dad was aware of this option and OK with it), but Trevor has his ability to swear taken. He now soundslike a rubber ducky when he tries
--Everyone gets home okay, except for the AU of this AU where the gang fails, but Trevor's on their doorstep like a bat out of Hell because time doesn't work right and he's been in Hell for a WHILE.

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I shouldn't have-

[ Shouldn't have touched her. Shouldn't have held her like that, like she was something precious to him. A thousand ways to get a body from one place to another, and he chose the only one with too much meaning behind it. And it was a spur of the moment choice but it was still a choice he made. He wanted to pull her against his chest, to feel if she really was light and delicate as a little songbird, to feel like she was his for a few minutes of navigating glass and spilled food and drinks.

Shouldn't have buried his face in Adrian's fur all of those times. Shouldn't have pulled him close and rested his head against him. Shouldn't have touched him at all, regardless of the form. Shouldn't have pushed him into sparring in case it was ever needed, and certainly shouldn't have let the sparring end with the vampire pinning him down with one hand to his chest.

...there are a lot of things he shouldn't have done. His face is bright red when he withdraws his hands from it, and he really, really isn't meeting Alucard's gaze. ]

I'm so sorry.

[The vampire just sighs. There is clearly too much going on in that head of Trevor's, and none of it is something he's going to talk about. Oh, Alucard could try and drag it out inch by painful inch, but he remembers full well what it was like when Trevor first started living at the castle and what an awful thing it was.

But he does get up, and walks over. Settles down on the floor next to Trevor instead, hoping that proximity but not looking at the man will help.]

Trevor, whatever you're apologizing for, you probably don't need to issue the apology.

I-

[ -he does. He needs to apologise for so much. He needs to just wait two more weeks, let this situation resolve itself.

That's a dark thought, isn't it? ]

-did she seem well, to you? I was worried.

[ She's fine. She's been fine the entire night. The incident barely even shook her - it might have been between vampires, but it's probably hardly the first time she's been privy to drunks squabbling over stupid things. But it's an attempt to deflect Alucard's concern, because he's been here long enough to know that making that concern go away is a fruitless task.

(It's endearing, how hard he tries to make she they're both well, and that's another big old pit of emotions to fall down.) ]

Please. She's Sypha. It takes far, far more than that to shake her.

[He says it all too warmly. The vampire's never hidden his affection for Sypha. If anything, Trevor's probably seen the more genuine side of it living with them, rather than simply observing the two in public. Alucard's an absolute idiot for her, and it's all the more reason he bristles when he hears Alucard's witch muttered among other vampires.

Alucard knows that answer doesn't help though, so he tilts his head at Trevor.]

Do you need me to not be a person for a little while?

No, I- really don't.

[ Or maybe he does. But- in truth that's been an excuse to wrap his arms around Alucard's shoulders and pull him close and be near to him for a while. There's something wrong about that, something filthy about taking something that's being offered as comfort and turning it into something different.

(It's him. He's the 'something filthy'.) ]

You're probably right. She's. [ Impossibly beautiful. The loveliest thing in this country. The brightest, kindest thing that he has ever seen. ] Probably fine.

[He's not convinced by that response. That much is clear when the vampire sighs and forces himself to look back at his car rather than at Trevor. This is a disaster, and he's not exactly sure how it can be resolved.]

I think she'll be in the library if you want to check on her. Said something about working on a old poem she found.

[Another fae saga. One that's entirely about their contracts.]

I shouldn't.

[ He'll fuck up again if he's in the same room as her right now, won't he? Stand a little too close, or let her attach herself to him, or mistake any of her kindness for more than it is.

He looks his hands over (too rough, too scarred, compared to the smooth skin of both of them). ]

I- thank you. For your hospitality. For everything.

Believe it or not, we enjoy having you around. Deeply. We're glad to give it.

[The we is important. Because if it was just Sypha or just himself with this annoying thing for the Belmont, that would be a problem. But it isn't. They both like him. Want him as more than a guardian for the city that happens to live in the house, want him to be viewed as more than a political prize. He should just be theirs to love.]

You know that, right?

[ He stares at Alucard, and he is so close to understanding. He does understand, for just a moment. And then he snatches the answer away from himself, because that's fucking presumptuous and ungrateful.

So no, he doesn't understand. Won't let himself. ]

I'll- [ And so he doesn't know how to answer. ] -I'll miss you both at the end of this.

[ Wait, no. That was the wrong thing to say. He shakes his head, mumbling something very insulting aimed at himself in french, and tries again. ]

I need to sleep, I think. Fucking parties always suck the life out of me.

[There's no good response to your Not-Yet-Boyfriend reminding you he's got a good chance of being kidnapped by the fae at the end of the month. Alucard flinches at the reminder though, and that means he doesn't make out whatever Trevor mutters to himself.

But sleep would help. Hopefully.]

Do you need one of us to at least see you to bed?

[Does he trust Trevor on his own two feet at the moment? Absolutely not.]

To- what?

[ To see him to bed.

Yes, he needs that very fucking much. That would be wonderful. One of them. Either of them. Both of them. It's a very fucking improper thing to ask but please.

Wait. No. He's tired and speaking in his third language and- that probably doesn't mean that. ]

I'll be fine. Thanks. [ And he stands, partly to leave but mostly to try to hide the fact that he sat straight up at that question, staring at Alucard almost hungrily. ] Sorry for worrying you.

[Alucard absolutely saw that reaction. But he's also well aware that now is not the time to spring upon it, and that the Belmont really needs an evening to get his head together.

He sighs as Trevor stands. His entire stupid face is still concerned, and it looks even worse now.]

I hope that sleeping helps. I'll be down here for most of the night if you need me.

[ He needs more than an evening. He would quite like an entirely new head, thanks. ]

I'm glad you're both here to take care of each other. God knows what a shitshow this would be if you weren't.

[ And with that, he leaves the garage, heading unsteadily to his room and triple-checking that the door is locked before he heads into the bed.

At least confession won't be fucking boring. ]

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